How to retrieve data from Wikipedia API using JSON?

Question

Here I am fetching the data from Wikipedia using following code. but it is not working for me.

var playListURL = \'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=j         


        

Answer 1

Use the following code to get the data:

$.getJSON(playListURL ,function(data) {
        $.each(data.query.pages, function(i, item) {
            alert(item.title);

        });
    });